https://i0.wp.com/demerarawaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/UG-2024-5.png!

Politics

Police Service Commission asks High Court to throw out President’s suspension, clear way for police promotions

The Police Ssrvice Commission (PSC) has asked the High Court to find President Irfaan Ali’s suspension of that body is unconstitutional. In court papers seen by News-Talk Radio Guyana 103 1 FM/ Demerara Waves Online, the PSC wants the High Court to declare the purported suspension of the PSC dated June 16, 2021 as unconstitutional and of “no force or ...

Read More »

Health Ministerial Adviser endorses vaccination proof or weekly negative COVID tests for frontline workers

Health  Ministerial Adviser, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy on Sunday endorsed France’s model to only allow vaccinated or weekly negative tested frontline workers to go to work. “If you want to exercise a right to not take the vaccine you must be prepared to face the consequences at your cost, not mine. France is doing the right thing. We must all do ...

Read More »

Lone elected PNCR executive member dissociates herself from anti-Granger statement

A lone elected member of the Central Executive Committee of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and three regional representatives on Saturday dissociated themselves from a statement that castigated their party leader David Granger and General Secretary Amna Ally for not abiding by decisions of their decision-making body. Those signing the first letter as “elected members” are Jennifer Ferreira-Dougal who ...

Read More »

PNCR Central Executive members accuse Granger, Ally of unilateral action

Several executive members of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) are calling on their party leader David Granger and General Secretary Amna Ally to cease taking unilateral action in violation of decisions taken by the Central Executive Committee (CEC). The statement notes that Mr. Granger and Ms. Ally are subjected to CEC decisions, being the highest decision forum in the ...

Read More »

GYD$19 million surveillance camera system purchased in 2015 still undelivered; US-based company goes bankrupt

The Guyana government might have to write off just over GYD$19 million that had been spent on buying a closed circuit television system for the National Intelligence Centre in 2015 but which has never been delivered and the now bankrupt company cannot be located, officials said Wednesday. “This was a matter that was entered into and the CCTV (Closed-Circuit Television ...

Read More »

New York Police probing alleged aggravated harassment by Attorney General Nandlall

The New York Police Department (NYPD) says Guyana’s Attorney General Anil Nandlall is under investigation for aggravated harassment, but he has already publicly denied the accusation. NYPD says they received a complaint from United States-based activist Rickford Burke. The Detective Squad at the 71st Precinct in Brooklyn, New York is conducting the investigation, according to the law enforcement agency. It ...

Read More »

PNCR’s Vanwest Charles says ‘no current barriers’ to holding Congress

Executive member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Dr. Richard Vanwest Charles has suggested that since the 2020 general and regional elections, his party has fallen somewhat into unconstitutional mode because its Congress is now long overdue. “I would not say a crisis but I would say there is a deviation from the constitutional requirements and hence has damaged ...

Read More »

Pro-democracy Cubans protest outside Cuban embassy in Guyana

A group of Cubans in Guyana on Monday afternoon protested outside the Cuban embassy, in solidarity with their fellow citizens back in Cuba who are involved in countrywide protests there. Citizens of the Cuban communist -run Caribbean nation, in a historic, move have taken to the streets in Cuba to protest economic hardship in the country, lack of democracy, food ...

Read More »

Chief Elections Officer asks High Court to block PPP Elections Commission from hearing dismissal motions

Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield is asking the High Court to block Elections Commissioners Sase Gunraj and Bibi Shadick from participating in hearing a motion for his immediate dismissal on the grounds that he needs a fair hearing. The pro-People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Election Commissioners have also filed motions in GECOM for the Deputy Chief Elections Officer  Roxanne Myers and ...

Read More »

Hunt on for suspected mastermind in Linden GECOM arson; suspected arsonists arrested

Guyanese police on Thursday said they have arrested three men suspected of being involved in burning down the Linden office of the Guyana Elections Commission  (GECOM) last year, and they are looking for a man believed to be the mastermind. “Police investigators are also pursuing an official in Linden who is said to be the intellectual author behind the burning ...

Read More »